Pramila Jayapal

Pramila Jayapal (21 September 1965-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-WA 7) from 3 January 2017, succeeding Jim McDermott.

Biography
Pramila Jayapal was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in 1965, and she immigrated to the United States in 1982 (at the age of 16) to attend college. She founded an advocacy group for immigrant rights after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and she was a member of the Washington Senate from 2015 to 2016, when she was elected to the US House of Representatives as a member of the Progressive Democrats.